The new chip is made with a new 56-nanometer process technology co-developed with SanDisk Corporation.

Smaller, more capacity and hopefully cheaper flash memory is what we need. Those SSD drives are still too small and too expensive.Toshiba intends to start shipping commercial samples of 16Gb (2 gigabyte) NAND flash memories in the late first quarter of this year.
More details in this Toshiba press-release.

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